[PEBCAC]A20-Lime2 : brand new,; almost working. not quite ;(

[otyugh]

Hey,
It's my third olinuxino, I thought I "had the experience", but seem that I'm out of luck. Everything seem to work but ethernet port just fail to work. I tried both latest armbian and the official debian strecth last release : it boots, it can install package, it's stable ; but it just can't communicate througt eth0

Can't dhclient, can't ping anything if configuring manually, and won't even ping from u-boot.

I guess it's a hardware problem, like delivery broke it ?
Can I confirm this in any way ?

[LubOlimex]

Probably the driver is not good enough for the Gigabit Ethernet.

> "I tried both latest armbian and the official debian strecth last release"

When in doubt, you should try the latest images provided by Olimex:

https://www.olimex.com/wiki/images/2/24/A20-lime2_mainline_uboot_sunxi_kernel_3.4.103_jessie_NAND_rel_13.torrent

https://www.olimex.com/wiki/images/2/21/A20-lime2_mainline_uboot_sunxi_kernel_3.4.103_jessie_eMMC_rel_15.torrent

If the official image works, take a look at the build instructions, you should probably apply some of the patching found in the this file to your image to get the Ethernet working properly:

https://github.com/OLIMEX/OLINUXINO/blob/master/SOFTWARE/A20/A20-build-3.4.103-release-7/a20-phy_1000_100-dram.patch

Best regards,
Lub/OLIMEX

[otyugh]

I just checked my bill and saw that... I was in fact using the lime1.
Godammit, I'm such a moron ;..;

Surprise, with the correct image everything works as expected.
...Gaaaaaah.